Suzuki Showcases Autonomous Robotics at CES 2025

Japanese automaker Suzuki marked its first appearance at CES with a booth that featured a number of innovative vehicles and ideas.

Among these was the versatile Micro e-Mobility Platform concept, an electrically powered unit being developed as a drive system for a range of different robotic applications.

While the origins of the platform are modest – Suzuki said the idea was born from its long-standing development of electric wheelchairs, which require excellent stability – its potential usage is anything but.

The company said the platform can be paired with autonomous vehicles or AI across a number of different areas, including logistics, monitoring and even construction, to provide cutting-edge robotic features.

And as an example, Suzuki showcased two very different vehicles underpinned by the technology.

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The first was an idea sure to be appreciated by anyone caught out by the snowy weather in a number of U.S. states this week: an autonomous snow clearer.

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The vehicle was developed by Everblue Technologies, another Japanese company based in Chofu, Tokyo, with the simple premise to clear snow as soon as it starts to ensure that too much never piles up. “By automating the task it saves people time and effort,” said Suzuki.

The platform can also be used by self-driving bots for last-mile deliveries. Here, Suzuki demonstrated its potential via a product from another Tokyo company, Lomby, the result of a partnership first announced in 2023.

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Suzuki’s design and development of the platform was done in tandem with Lomby’s focus on autonomous technology and efforts to establish a delivery infrastructure while studying the common use of parts for both bots and wheelchairs to reduce manufacturing costs in production.

Although the overarching theme of the Suzuki display was “creating small for big societal change” – the automaker has earned a reputation for its clever diminutive cars – there were other nods to its increasing interest in automation.

The recently announced Blanc Robot platform being co-developed with Australian company Applied EV made its public first appearance in the United States.

There was also a briefing on Suzuki’s partnership with Glydways, the California company that develops autonomous personal rapid transit vehicles that travel in dedicated lanes. Glydways is working towards the launch of its first live system in Atlanta in 2026.